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Regis, Amber K.

The memoirs of John Addington Symondsa critical edition /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The memoirs of John Addington Symondsedited by Amber K. Regis.
Reminder of title:	a critical edition /
other author:	Regis, Amber K.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016.
Description:	xx, 587 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Authors, EnglishBiography.19th century
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0
ISBN:	9781137291240$q(electronic bk.)

The memoirs of John Addington Symondsa critical edition /
The memoirs of John Addington Symondsa critical edition /[electronic resource] :edited by Amber K. Regis. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xx, 587 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Genders and sexualities in history. - Genders and sexualities in history..

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Notes on the Text -- The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds -- Appendix 1: Miscellaneous papers bound with the Memoirs manuscript -- Appendix 2: Letters bound with Chapter 16 -- Appendix 3: Rewritten pages (MS 517a-b) -- Index.

This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding light upon sexual cultures and life histories too often hidden from history. Symonds (1840-93) began writing his Memoirs in 1889. It was, he confessed, 'a foolish thing to do.' Symonds was a respected man of letters, an historian, translator, essayist and poet; he was also married with children. But rather than unfold a simple tale of public and private achievement, the Memoirs record his struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with these professional and familial identities. His autobiography offers a confessional account of relationships beyond the accepted bounds of nineteenth-century social mores, presenting an alternative case study that contests the legal and medical authorities that would label his desires a crime or disease. Yet being so eloquent on matters of heterodox sexuality, the Memoirs were suppressed. The manuscript survives because Symonds recognised its import, however 'foolish': he instructed his literary executor to preserve the text, a duty ultimately discharged by placing the manuscript under embargo in the care of the London Library.

ISBN: 9781137291240$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0doiSubjects--Personal Names:

474554
Symonds, John Addington,
1840-1893.Subjects--Topical Terms:

392016
Authors, English
--19th century--Biography.

LC Class. No.: PR5523

Dewey Class. No.: 828.809

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